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I can't tell what you're taking issue with. At first I thought it was my ignorance of Gigi, and I was like, fair enough, there's really a whole lot of music I've never heard, that's something I'll totally own up to, etc. ... But now I'm wondering whether it's the first part of my post about Aphex Twin vs. Luomo. I'm certainly not damning Aphex Twin -- I joined in the chorus saying that "Xtal" is great -- but I do think that RDJ, like most practitioners of "IDM," makes the kind of electronic music that rock fans often gravitate toward. I mean, you go to Reckless Records in Chicago, and their electronic section is mostly AFX, Squarepusher, Mouse on Mars, etc. That's all I'm saying. Morbius's comment that he found it odd for straight people to be listening to "these genres" was just really weird to me, since my stereotype of an Aphex Twin fan is, like, TOMBOT.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:57 (seventeen years ago) link

YES to your last point. i guess i don't confuse ILX tendencies with active music listeners i converse with "IRL" (aside from jaxon but we all know how nuts he is).

but i like "xtal" a lot, or i did when i made this dumb thread.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 9 November 2006 22:03 (seventeen years ago) link

wait, millar is straight?

― and what (ooo), Thursday, 9 November 2006 22:06 (seventeen years ago) link

man i hope tombot doesn't see this thread. his techno credentials go far further than a lot of britishes, even.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 9 November 2006 22:07 (seventeen years ago) link

You're conflating my points. One of the token electronic acts for rock dudes is Aphex Twin. But not all Aphex Twin fans are rock dudes. I'd wager that most Aphex Twin fans, however, are straight. TOMBOT = an Aphex Twin fan who is straight but who is not a rock dude.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 November 2006 22:14 (seventeen years ago) link

janga janga janga janga

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Thursday, 9 November 2006 22:15 (seventeen years ago) link

gay vs. straight, techno vs. rockist... WHY CAN'T WE ALL GET ALONG?!?!?

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 9 November 2006 22:16 (seventeen years ago) link

word.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 November 2006 22:16 (seventeen years ago) link

if we can WALK together why can't we ROCK together?

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 9 November 2006 22:17 (seventeen years ago) link

you will have a looooong wait for an ILXor mocking you for not knowing Gigi.

so what's the str8 equiv of a poppers joke?

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 9 November 2006 22:17 (seventeen years ago) link

i was totally gonna call him out as not being gay if he couldn't identify a song from a musical, morbs.

light beer, duh.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 9 November 2006 22:20 (seventeen years ago) link

or huffing.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 9 November 2006 22:24 (seventeen years ago) link

i still want someone to just fucking send me a file already

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 9 November 2006 23:29 (seventeen years ago) link

gbx I'll trade you SAW I for SAW II! ... i can maybe get you a YSI later.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 November 2006 23:35 (seventeen years ago) link

deal!

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 9 November 2006 23:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Xtal

p.s. ban jaymc plzzz

― am0n (am0n), Thursday, 9 November 2006 23:45 (seventeen years ago) link

85-92 is ruined forever, to me, because when i first listened to it, i expected another sawii

― PRKLTR (flezaffe), Friday, 10 November 2006 12:51 (seventeen years ago) link

every note of this album spells disappointment

― PRKLTR (flezaffe), Friday, 10 November 2006 12:54 (seventeen years ago) link

that 'rhubarb' track off saw II is my fave. I heard II before 85-92, too.

― H2-H4 (H2-H4), Friday, 10 November 2006 12:54 (seventeen years ago) link

85-92 is ruined forever, to me, because when i first listened to it, i expected another sawii
-- PRKLTR (fffffezaff...), November 10th, 2006 12:51 PM. (flezaffe) (later) (userip)
every note of this album spells disappointment

-- PRKLTR (fffffezaff...), November 10th, 2006 12:54 PM. (flezaffe) (later) (userip)

i really really hope you're joking. 85-92 is perfect.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 10 November 2006 15:18 (seventeen years ago) link

maybe, but i still hate it. and even if i didnt - sawii has aged better, i would even say its timeless

― PRKLTR (flezaffe), Friday, 10 November 2006 16:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Saw2 is overrated, Saw8592 beats it up with eight drunken gods. I actually think fucking FSOL's Lifeforms is closer to "timeless" than Saw2, because it just sounds dated, whereas saw2 sounds like two hours of bullshit jerkoff sub-eno/glass beatless horseshit with about eight total minutes of fairly impressive engineering

the caustic window collection on rephlex has the best 40 seconds of audio rdj ever recorded really

I am one of those dudes who thinks that everything after ICBYD has been pretty much downhill with a promising blip of an EP before his mind was eaten by MetaSynth running on a PowerBook

― LISTEN U TURBO CROUTON (TOMBOT), Friday, 10 November 2006 16:52 (seventeen years ago) link

"aged better" is a really weird thing to say about dance music

― LISTEN U TURBO CROUTON (TOMBOT), Friday, 10 November 2006 16:52 (seventeen years ago) link

"These carl craig twelves have really taken on a great smoky finish from the barrel"

― LISTEN U TURBO CROUTON (TOMBOT), Friday, 10 November 2006 16:55 (seventeen years ago) link

the caustic window collection on rephlex has the best 40 seconds of audio rdj ever recorded really

yes!

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 10 November 2006 16:56 (seventeen years ago) link

hahahahaha THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKIN' BOUT

― LISTEN U TURBO CROUTON (TOMBOT), Friday, 10 November 2006 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link

"aged better" is a really weird thing to say about dance music

1. how is sawii dance music
2. arent you the guy who complained about 'lazy' music on some other thread

― PRKLTR (flezaffe), Friday, 10 November 2006 16:59 (seventeen years ago) link

1. well it's a really odd thing to say about any kind of music tbh
2. probably, I have also been called a "mr knowitall knownothing"

― LISTEN U TURBO CROUTON (TOMBOT), Friday, 10 November 2006 17:02 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm sorry if you really love saw2, I know a lot of people who do, I just think it's kind of crap personally, and I know crap

― LISTEN U TURBO CROUTON (TOMBOT), Friday, 10 November 2006 17:03 (seventeen years ago) link

i don't think it's crap, but it's over-rated and not nearly as good as 85-92, polygon window, or caustic window.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 10 November 2006 17:05 (seventeen years ago) link

T/S "lazy music" criticism vs. "lazy music criticism"

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Friday, 10 November 2006 17:10 (seventeen years ago) link

syntax error

― LISTEN U TURBO CROUTON (TOMBOT), Friday, 10 November 2006 17:24 (seventeen years ago) link

xtal thread is so last week but i played this cd again at work its still the shit & cure for bummerz

― and what (ooo), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:09 (seventeen years ago) link

i have had it on all weekend. thanks, jaymc!

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 22:01 (seventeen years ago) link

no prob, bro!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 22:17 (seventeen years ago) link

three months pass...

DUDE FUCKING LOVE THIS ALBUM

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005Y1TL.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Curt1s Stephens, Sunday, 4 March 2007 09:52 (seventeen years ago) link

i am going to listen to this song and go to bed

― rrrobyn, Sunday, 4 March 2007 10:03 (seventeen years ago) link

omg i found this album in a dusty pile of cds last week, and i listened to it again! it still sucks ass! yay!

― fies, Sunday, 4 March 2007 13:53 (seventeen years ago) link

pssh

― latebloomer, Sunday, 4 March 2007 14:04 (seventeen years ago) link

you misspelled pies

― TOMBOT, Sunday, 4 March 2007 16:11 (seventeen years ago) link

hey esteban!

― lfam, Monday, 5 March 2007 02:56 (seventeen years ago) link

one month passes...

should we have a poll

* xtal
* pulsewidth
* heliospahn
* fuck that, Polygon Window
* fuck that, SAWII

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 5 April 2007 23:12 (seventeen years ago) link

ANALOGUE BUBBLEBATH II

― chaki, Thursday, 5 April 2007 23:18 (seventeen years ago) link

I MEAN HANGABLE AUTOBULB II

― chaki, Thursday, 5 April 2007 23:18 (seventeen years ago) link

This album is indeed completely brilliant and XTAL is awesome and now I want to lie in a bath and listen to it on headphones or something.

― Trayce, Friday, 6 April 2007 00:18 (seventeen years ago) link

haha shasta said "wank"

― admrl, Friday, 6 April 2007 00:38 (seventeen years ago) link

one month passes...

jaymc & fezaffe are like the tag team of RONG in this thread

― and what, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:38 (sixteen years ago) link

whereas saw2 sounds like two hours of bullshit jerkoff sub-eno/glass beatless horseshit with about eight total minutes of fairly impressive engineering

so rong

― latebloomer, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:52 (sixteen years ago) link

fuck, what is rong with ME?

whereas saw2 sounds like two hours of bullshit jerkoff sub-eno/glass beatless horseshit with about eight total minutes of fairly impressive engineering

...no

― latebloomer, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:53 (sixteen years ago) link

SAWII d2 tk3 = bumpin

― Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 18 May 2007 17:08 (sixteen years ago) link

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can't believe it exists

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